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		Mekas and his younger brother, Adol \-fas, made in the summer of 1971 to the Lithuanian village of Semeniskiai, where they were born and brought up, and which they had not seen since they left it, twenty-seven years before.
		All five Mekas brothers wrote poetry, as a matter of fact-a family trait that Adolfas attributes to their mother's delightful habit of improvising songs all day while she went about her household duties-but Jonas was ob\-viously the most talente d, and his pub\-lished poems soon attracted attention in literary circles.
		Mekas himself is strong on certain films by Hawks and Hitchcock and Godard (late Godard), which he plans to propose at one or another of the se\-lection committee's twice-annual meet- \par }\pard \widctlpar\adjustright \par \sect\sectd\marglsxn0\margrsxn516\margtsxn19\margbsxn622\linex0\sectdefaultcl\pard\plain \qj\widctlpar\tx576\tx2016\tx3024\phpg\pvpg\posx1085\posy462\absw3270\absh-733\dxfrtext188\dfrmtxtx188\dfrmtxty201\adjustright \fs20\cgrid {ings.\tab The co:a i \'84ittce\tab is still "in\tab the process of emergence," he says.
	www.vasulka.org /archive/Writings/JonasMekasArticle.rtf (10875 words)

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		In 1960, Adolfas Mekas was a member of a group of filmmakers, led by his brother, Jonas that essentially formed the art film movement known as New American Cinema.
		Adolfas Mekas retired from the Bard faculty in 2004.
		Adolfas did his best to argue the case for a film department at the college, both to the administration and to his fellow faculty colleagues.
	www.cosmicbaseball.com /amekas05.html (2023 words)

	Home Movies of the Avant-Garde
		Mekas' films share remarkable characteristics with ordinary home movies: they take as their subject matter the everyday lives of his family and friends, focusing extensively on those moments typically celebrated by the home mode: childhood, travel, birthdays, weddings, and parties.
		Mekas' shooting style, while a creative stylistic choice, incorporates many of the signature elements of home movies: flash frames, in-camera editing, rapid camera movements, abrupt changes in time and place, variable exposure and focus, and jump cuts.
		Mekas recognizes that an art world of film, in addition to avenues of production, distribution, and exhibition, needs a discourse of film criticism to validate these works, to cultivate a more sophisticated audience, and to provide methodologies of interpretation.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~jruoff/Articles/HomeMovies.htm (5396 words)

	Jonas Mekas
		Mekas began writing at the Village Voice as a film critic in 1958, though his “serious” ambitions as a critic were soon pushed aside for what Mekas called his “midwife” vocation (1).
		Mekas insists that he is not a filmmaker, but rather a “filmer”, preferring to capture the essence of the moment before him to staging an event.
		For David James, the very experience of loss is what drives Mekas' film work: “…loss is not simply the master narrative; it is the condition of their coming into being…” (20) To film, and moreover to splice together footage, is, for Mekas, a kind of recovery of the past.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/05/mekas.html (9747 words)

	Jonas Mekas - Wikipedia
		Jonas Mekas (1922 -) is a Lithuanian filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." He was the founder of the Anthology Film Archives, the Filmmaker's Cooperative and Film Culture magazine.
		During the Second World War, Mekas was held in displaced persons camps before emigrating to the United States with his brother, Adolfas Mekas, in 1949.
		Though his narrative films and documentaries are still highly regarded, he is best known for his diary films, such as Walden (1969), Lost, Lost, Lost (1975), Reminiscences of a Voyage to Lithuania (1972), and Zefiro Torna (1992).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonas_Mekas (212 words)

	Home Movies of the Avant Garde
		Mekas' films provide an excellent case study of the ways in which individual works show signs of the cooperation of the larger art world.
		Mekas' home movie aesthetic charts the artistic events and happenings of a fifteen-year period in New York, piecing found images into a collage of the art world.
		Mekas integrates these three journeys--his initial flight from occupied Lithuania, his return twenty-five years later, and the narrative journey of the film--into a complex weave of memory, time, and place.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~jruoff/Articles/MEKASCJ.HTM (8853 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - REVIEW: JONAS MEKAS
		Since the 1950s Mekas has been one of the driving forces behind New York's avant- garde film culture, which he has promoted as a film maker, a critic, an organizer and an administrator.
		For Mekas, a displaced person, an émigré from Lithuania, the past is always there, yet ruptured from the present.
		Mekas invokes collective memories, particularly of the 1960s, with images that present joy and spirit and at the same time subjects of lament and loss.
	www.artnet.com /magazine_pre2000/reviews/roza/roza9-30-96.asp (470 words)

	Re:Voir Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Adolfas Mekas, born in Lithuania, arrived in the United States with his brother Jonas in 1949.
		Adolfas Mekas’s Hallelujah the Hills bears witness to his knowledge and love of cinema, as well as the immense freedom to be found in all the films of the New American Cinema.
		When they return to propose marriage in the eighth year, they discover that she has already wed another man. The jilted suitors embark on a camping trip in the Vermont woodlands where comic romps are punctuated by bittersweet recollections of the woman.
	usa.re-voir.com /amekas.html (130 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Adolfas Mekas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Adolfas Mekas (born 1925 in Lithuania) is a Lithuanian film director.
		He immigrated to the United States and started Film Culture magazine with his brother Jonas Mekas in 1954.
		In 1971, Mekas founded the Peoples' Film Department at Bard College, where he continued to teach until retiring in May of 2004.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Adolfas_Mekas (244 words)

	Jonas Mekas (1922 - )
		Mekas also founded the journal Film Culture in 1955; shot his own film diaries that he left unedited for years; screened others' works and consequently was arrested at least once on obscenity charges; and began the Filmmaker's Co-op in 1962.
		Jonas Mekas began to arrange screenings with a new energy: first weekend midnight programs at the Charles Theater on Avenue B and East 12th Street in 1961 and subsequently at the Bleecker Street Cinema and the Gramercy Arts in 1963.
		Because Mekas filmed it from the center, his viewer too becomes a victim of endless beatings, shouted commands, debasing personal inspections, unnecessary cleanups, ritualistic requests "to cross the white line, sir!" and worst of all, the destruction of all repose.
	www.jahsonic.com /JonasMekas.html (2526 words)

	Jonas Mekas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The director Born in 1922 in a family of Lithuanian farmers, Jonas Mekas, encouraged by his pastor uncle, continued his studies at secondary school and tried his hand at poetry.
		In 1944, he was captured by the Nazis and sent, with his brother Adolfas, to a work camp near Hamburg.
		Mekas was torn from his land, condemned to being stateless.
	www.pardo.ch /1997/filmprg/r078.html (326 words)

	A cinematic couple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is difficult to contextualise Adolfas Mekas and Pola Chapelle in Bombay city (where the idea of an Indie filmmaker has only three prototypes: ad filmmakers who make chaddi commercials, rich kids who make documentaries and retards from Bel Khar who make Bollywood crossover films) Adolfas Mekas’ story, though, reads like this...
		In the years before his academic tenure, Mekas was an active writer, scholar, and filmmaker.
		Adolfas and Pola will be presenting a package of filmic dynamite.
	web.mid-day.com /hitlist/2005/february/104473.htm (339 words)

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		Curator, writer and filmmaker Jonas Mekas is the godfather of American avant-garde filmmaking, or the New American Cinema, as he dubbed it in the late 1950s.
		Born in Lithuania in 1922, Mekas spent the Second World War in displaced persons camps before emigrating to the United States with his brother, Adolfas, in 1949.
		In 1958, Mekas began writing his "Movie Journal" column for the Village Voice, spotlighting the newest and most radical filmmakers in New York City.
	www.jahsonic.com /FilmCulture.html (518 words)

	A Lifetime of Cutting-Edge Filming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When the Germans came to the Mekas farmhouse in the Lithuanian village of Semeniskiai in 1944, Jonas Mekas, as he put it recently, “went out the window and into the potato field.” The last thing he glimpsed behind him was his father up against the wall, a German gun pressed into his back.
		Mekas went everywhere with it, it went everywhere with him, not least to the demonstrations and civil strife of the 1950s and ‘60s.
		Mekas is also in the throes of creating a video “Opera Epileptic Buto,” focused on the Japanese dance form, starring dancer Virginie Marchand and 90-something-year-old Buto performer Kaguo Ohno.
	www.gaycitynews.com /gcn_414/alifetimeofcutting.html (1749 words)

	JONAS MEKAS: TWO MEMORIES OF ALEXANDER HAMMID: LOGOS SUMMER 2004
		Adolfas, my brother, thought we should get a car to help us move around.
		Luckily, Adolfas was smart enough to insure it.
		Jonas Mekas is the founder and Artistic Director of Anthology Film Archives and is a noted poet and filmmaker.
	www.logosjournal.com /mekas_hammid.htm (814 words)

	Adolfas Mekas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Adolfas Mekas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Adolfas Mekas (born 1925 in (A republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea) Lithuania) is a Lithuanian (The person who directs the making of a film) film director.
		In 1971, Mekas founded the Peoples' Film Department at (Click link for more info and facts about Bard College) Bard College, where he continued to teach until retiring in May of 2004.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ad/Adolfas_Mekas.htm (86 words)

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		In un’intervista Mekas racconta che fu grazie a
		Attraverso le parole di Mekas, infatti, le tre parti di cui si compone il film si uniscono in un unico resoconto intimista e poetico, attribuendo all’opera una forma ancora più personale.
		In Elmshorn, Adolfas era sdraiato esattamente nel posto dove era i nostri letti nel campo di lavoro.
	web.tiscali.it /cinema_underground/versione_italiana/reminiscences.htm (6966 words)

	Maryland Film Festival Notes
		Adolfas was a teacher of mine at Bard College.
		Adolfas is perhaps best known in some circles as the brother of Jonas Mekas, but those who have seen Hallelujah the Hills know better.
		Adolfas is a character --his Lithuanian accent coupled with his sharp wit make him a force to be reckoned with.
	www.mdfilmfest.com /1999/notes/0424_01.html (1704 words)

	hallelujah
		The director Adolfas Mekas is the brother of noted Greenwich Village underground director and film historian Jonas, who is credited with assisting his brother during the shooting.
		Adolfas has come up with an offbeat, lighthearted romantic/comedy spoof, that gently mocks France's New Wave cinema, which was the vogue among intellectuals at the time.
		My favorite scene was of the two escaped convicts dressed in their striped prison uniforms fighting a duel, which brought about a fit conclusion to the two lovers and their search for answers.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/hallelujah.htm (449 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is one of Mekas' underground films from the early sixties about a suicidal girl who turns to a priest for help.
		The characters are somewhat stereotyped, but Mekas does have a good camera sense and uses it well, incorporating New York's Lower East Side to its best possible advantage.
		Director Mekas' brother Adolfas, who plays the intellectual, was an underground filmmaker in his own right.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=29352 (140 words)

	Contemporary Arts Media : Browsing by Category (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lost Lost Lost comprises the first shots Mekas took upon his arrival in America as a political refugee.
		Mekas Mekas & Chapelle 3 Voyages en Lithuanie (VHS)
		In 1971, after a twenty-seven year absence, Adolfas and his brother Jonas returned to their birthplace in Lithuania.
	www.hushvideos.com /47.shtml (1726 words)

	Mekas Mekas & Chapelle 3 Voyages en Lithuanie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mekas Mekas & Chapelle 3 Voyages en Lithuanie
		ADOLFAS MEKAS : Going Home 1971 60' JONAS MEKAS : Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania 1971-1972 82' POLA CHAPELLE : Journey to Lithuania 1971 90' In 1971, after a twenty-seven year absence, Adolfas and his brother Jonas returned to their birthplace in Lithuania.
		Now they came home for a visit, Adolfas with his wife, the singer Pola Chapelle.
	www.hushvideos.com /RV-Mekcha.shtml (110 words)

	Interview with Jonas Mekas
		For a Jonas Mekas film and videography, please click here.
		That whole generation of independent feature filmmakers from the '60s and '70s died before they could realize their dreams.
		Adolfas could never get sponsorship, because his scripts required at least one million or two million dollars to produce.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/17/mekas_interview.html (6215 words)

	Images - Independent '60s Cinema
		Hallelujah, the Hills, again like others here, has a subtext of deprivation, a purposeful exposure of the financial struggle behind the film and evident in what we see.
		Mekas allows the ragged edges to show, cutting through the artifice to say, yes, this is a film!--but exploiting its budget limitations in the name of realism rather than artfully disguising those limitations as in commercial cinema.
		In addition to the obvious class resonances, this approach also increased audience sympathy with the characters as the distance between viewer and viewed is eroded, the latter an important motif in all kinds of art of the 1960s and beyond.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue02/features/60sindie.htm (399 words)

	A lifetime of cutting-edge filmmaking
		When the Germans came to the Mekas farmhouse in the Lithuanian village of Semeniskiai in 1944, Jonas Mekas, as he puts it today, “went out the window and into the potato field.” The last thing he glimpsed behind him was his father up against the wall, a German gun pressed into his back.
		Our dream was to go to Israel to start a film industry – here’s a new country that can use a film industry.” But because Jonas and Adolfas Mekas were not and are not Jewish, they were not in that year permitted entry to Israel.
		It was a column of Mekas, brash, intelligent, opinionated, and wholly against the stream – any predominating stream.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_100/alifetimeofcuttingedge.html (1671 words)

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		American author-director Adolfas Mekas c o m bine s the methods of Mack Sennett, W. Fields, the Marx brothers, W. Griffiths, and the French New Wave in an excellent parody of film makers and film from Eisen- stein to Antonioni.
		The action includes many flash- backs to the courtship days of the previous years with 'last year' in Vermont and a hillside fire scene that smacks of 'Ugetsu' that is made hilarious by fading-in Jap- anese subtitles.
		This is Mekas' first solo effort at full length film making, but be shows amazing control of all of the resources of movie technique to heighten and cohere this eighty- two minute satirical riot.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_084/TECH_V084_S0073_P006.txt (498 words)

	Walden - Diaries Notes and Sketches (Jonas Mekas)
		Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of filmmaking.
		Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.
		Jonas Mekas: un Curieux Mélange by Gérard Frot-Coutaz, in Cinéma 74 Numéro 192, 1974-11-00
	smironne.free.fr /NICO/FILMS/wal.html (694 words)

	Welcome to the Contemporary Arts Media web site.
		Two boxed sets, with video cassettes, poster and 150-page book with unpublished texts by 60 authors including the personalities appearing in the film and critical texts.
		Diaries, Notes and Sketches 1969 180' Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in
		Jonas Mekas' experimental home movies featuring John Lennon, Yoko Ono and George Maciunas, the founder of Fluxus.
	media.hushvideos.com /Films_Experimental.htm (1964 words)

	Hallelujah the Hills Film Review - Time Out Film
		A highpoint from the 'innocent' years of American underground cinema, and something of an enduring delight for real film buffs.
		Mekas' comedy starts from an enthusiastic parody of French 'new wave' concepts like using two actresses to play one character, and manages to go on to incorporate references (part satire, part homage) to what seems like every other branch of cinema extant.
		It ranges from samurai movies to Chaplinesque slapstick, and it hits the intended tone between love and scepticism far more often than you'd have thought possible.
	www.timeout.com /film/71634.html (256 words)

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